5. And we pray thee, if we have found favour in thy sight, that thou give it to us thy servants in possession, and make us not pass over the Jordan.
6. And Moses answered them: What, shall your brethren go to fight, and will you sit here?
7. Why do ye overturn the minds of the children of Israel, that they may not dare to pass into the place which the Lord hath given them?
8. Was it not thus your fathers did, when I sent from Cadesbarne to view the land?
9. And when they were come as far as the valley of the cluster, having viewed all the country, they overturned the hearts of the children of Israel, that they should not enter into the coasts, which the Lord gave them.
10. And he swore in his anger, saying:.
11. If these men, that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land, which I promised with an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: because they would not follow me,
12. Except Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezite, and Josue the son of Nun: these have fulfilled my will.